The near ritual murder involving Isaac:

In Genesis 22:1-18, God decided to test the depth of Abraham's faith. God ordered Abraham to travel to the top of a mountain in the land of Moriah, and there murder his own son, Isaac, as a human sacrifice. At the last minute, as Abraham was about to stab his son to death, an angel appeared and ordered Abraham to stop. A ram which was caught in a thicket was used as a substitute for Isaac. The passage assumes that God is not omniscient, because he did not know the depth of faith of Abraham without testing him in this way. The immorality of this story is the massive traumatic stress that both Isaac, his father, and mother experienced during this event. Compounding this is the willingness of a father to murder his own son. It is doubtful that either would have been able to be fully normal afterwards.

Mass murder of the first-born of Egypt:Exodus 7:3:"...I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt."Exodus 7:13-14:"And he [God] hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go."Exodus 12:29-30: "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." God "hardened Pharaoh's heart" to prevent him from easily giving into the requests of Moses to release his people from slavery. Because God made the Egyptian ruler resistant to the idea of freeing the Israelites, the pharaoh ignored a variety of plagues. Finally, God killed the first born of all of the humans and cattle in Egypt, except for those of the Israelites who had ritually killed a male lamb and daubed its blood over the doorposts of their homes. The death toll must have been enormous, as every Pagan family was affected. Mass murder of children is inexcusable by today's moral standards.

Hard Passages:

There are many "hard passages" in the Bible which appear to conflict with today's moral consensus.  Some verses describe what appear to be unjust instructions or actions by God to commit genocide. Others involve the murder of innocent, defenseless individuals, including the elderly, children, infants and newborns. Still others involve the murdering of a person for a minor transgression. Some are single murders; others are instances of mass murder.

Some "hard passages" and other Biblical passages reflect an earlier, lower standard of morality and should be ignored. They are dangerous to the religious belief, spirituality and ethics of today's readers. These passages include verses which condone and regulate slavery, which advocate discrimination against women, which promote religious hatred and intolerance, which denigrate homosexuals, which describe the killing of innocent people, genocide, etc. Both conservatives and liberals agree on one factor: these "hard passages" are  rarely cited in church or religious writings. They appear to teach a system of ethics that is profoundly evil by today's religious and secular standards. A sampling of these passages from the Hebrew Scriptures follows.

If you have the stomach for more, "The born-again skeptic's guide to the Bible" contains brief descriptions of about 70 "mass killings ordered, committed or approved by God."

"And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
 Joshua 6:21 1


"So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded. And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon." Joshua 10:40-41

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"...texts from the source we call Holy Scripture have been used in the past to defend the divine right of kings and to oppose the Magna Carta; to condemn Galileo and to assert that the sun does indeed rotate around the earth; to justify slavery, segregation and apartheid; to keep women from being educated, entering the professions, voting or being ordained; to justify war, to persecute and kill Jews; to condemn other world religions; and to continue the oppression and rejection of gay and lesbian people."

"The Bible has been used for centuries by Christians as a weapon of control. To read it literally is to believe in a three-tiered universe, to condone slavery, to treat women as inferior creatures, to believe that sickness is caused by God's punishment and that mental disease and epilepsy are caused by demonic possession. When someone tells me that they believe the Bible is the 'literal and inerrant word of God,' I always ask, 'Have you ever read it'?" Bishop John Shelby Spong.


The problem with the Old and New Testaments is that they are both dated pieces of literature that reflect the values and mores of those who wrote them between 1000 BCE and 135 CE. Many passages in the Old Testament reflect a tribal mentality that portrays God as hating everyone the people of Israel hated. It also portrays God as killing the firstborn male in every household in Egypt on the night of the Passover; justifies the institution of slavery (except for fellow Jews) and defines women as the property of men. Note that even the Ten Commandments exhort us "not covet our neighbor's house, his wife, his slaves, his ox, his ass, etc." The neighbor is clearly a male, and the things that we are forbidden to covet are all male possessions. These Hebrew Scriptures, however, also define God as love, justice and as a universal being. In the portrait of the "Servant" in Isaiah 40-55 the Hebrew Scriptures portray human life as capable of giving itself away and even of acting in such a way as to draw the pain out of others, absorb it and return it as love. The New Testament portrays Paul as believing that slavery is good if it is kind. Paul also reveals attitudes toward women that are today deeply embarrassing: "I forbid a woman to have authority over a man." "Women should keep quiet in church."

Saakumaa bija domaats, kaa atbilde uz shrldu komentu, bet izdomaaju izmeeru deelj ielikt kaa postu.

Divas puses moneetai - kaa jau vienmeer. Labaa lieta ir taa, ka ja oficiaals darbs ir, tad, pat ja taa ir minimaalaa alga, paeedis buusi un kaadu istabeli iireet vareesi atljauties. Arii ja buusi kaut cik izmaniigs, tad jaunas iespeejas un darbinji var paveerties viskautkur. Paika ir nosaciiti leeta, ja zina ko, kur un kaa pirkt. Iipashi, ja vairumaa. Divataa dziivot vienmeer sanaaks leetaak, eediena un izmaksu zinjaa.

Tagad par slikto:

Augstaa noziedziiba.

Iire ir ahuuna daarga. Leetaak par 320 meenesii par cieshamu vienvietiigu istabeli var nesapnjot. Cieshamu divvietiigu istabu var dabuut no saakot (uzsvars ir uz "saakot") apmeeram 520 meenesii. Ja gribi kaa cilveeks dziivot(t.i. Iireet istabu), ar labaam meebeleem, labu remontu, labu dziivoklja projekteejumu - reizini tos 520 ar 2. Vismaz. Lai atljautos iireet nelielu, smuku, maajiigu vienistabas dziivokliiti - ar 1,5 shtukaam meenesii ir toch jaareekjinaas. Njemot veeraa, ka parastajiem iebrauceejiem saakumaa vairaak par 800-1000 uz rokas nespiid, tad saproti pats. Sabiedriskais transports - metro videeji ap simtinju meenesii vismaz izmaksaa, ir gandriiz vienmeer bezjeegaa paarpildiits. Iipashi jau 'during the rush hour', no riita un vakaraa. Autobuss leetaak, bet ilgaaka, krietni vien kratiishanaas. Kaa arii jaareekjinaas ar sastreegumiem.

Samazgu katls - jau mineetais. Visas iespeejamaas rases un tautiibas. Turklaat ne jau tie labaakie paarstaavji. Apmeeram, kaa nonaakot Centraaltirguu, tikai starptautiskaa. Angljus redz bezmaz vai tikai biznesa rajonos. Visur citur - imigranti. Paarsvaraa jau melniigsneejie un melnie.

Viss vieteeji razhotais un buuveetais (nerunaajot par paartiku shobriid) - sajuuta, kaa caur pakalju taisiits, projekteets u.t.t. Tizlaakie logi ever (runaaju par vismaz 8 vietaam, kur esmu dziivojis un veel tik pat, kur ciemojies. Jau piemineetie uudenskraani, ar diviem atstatus esoshiem sniipjiem. Pa karsto tek vaaroshs. Pat ja ir uudensmaisiitaajs uz izlietnes, tad parasti tas ir anglju razhojums, kuri ir, kaa jau mineets, taisiiti caur pakalju. Uudenji it kaa sapluust kopaa vienaa sniipii, bet nav taa kaartridzha, kas abus uudenjus vienmeeriigi samaisiitu kopaa. Liidz ar to var sanaakt, ka tajaa vienaa struuklaa iebaazhot rokas, taapat var applauceeties, jo tur gan vaaroshais, gan aukstais tecees vienlaikus no vienas struuklas.

Zema spiediena dusha. Lai taupiitu naudu tiek uzstaadiita t.s. Power Shower, kaste, kas sevii tecina auksto uudeni un attieciigi uzstaadijumiem 'na hadu' uzkarsee. Taads kaa termostats-sildiitaajs. Lielais miinuss, ka uz taadu kaartiigu dushas gaazienu, kas tevi sakarseetu, var necereet. Ir taada ljengana, pavaaja dushas struukla.

Sleedzhu vietaa biezhi vien ir debiili strikji, kas jaaparauj. Podiem pogas vietaa debiils klokjis.

Man joprojaam neizprotamais debiilisms noklaat visu maaju, vai dziivokli ar paklaaju, parasti pretiigi tumshzilaa, vai peleekaa kraasaa. Arii koridorii un uz kaapneem. Lieki piebilst, cik shie paklaaji ir tiiri un smuki.
Virtuvees vinji parasti liek linoleju, vai parketu. Jaa, fliizhu vietaa. Lieki teikt, ka shie materiaali netur slodzi, ko uzdod virtuve, taapeec izveidojushies izdilumi, lielas, neiztiiraamas skjirbas, atpliisushi gabali un kuukumi ir norma.

Aizmirsu piebilst par klaustrofobiskajiem koridoriem, taadaam pashaam kaapneem, kaa arii par izcili nejeedziigo telpu izmeeru un formu plaanojumu.

Tas ko es te rakstu taa nav sagadiishanaas, kas man traapiijusies, taa ir norma, sastopama gandriiz visur, iznjemot modernaakas jaunaakas maajas, kuraas atljauties dziivot tieshaam var tikai turiigi cilveeki.

Paika - pietiks ar to, ka piemineeshu faktu, ka Lielbritaanija ir oficiaali atziita par naaciju ar vissliktaako eeshanas un gatavoshanas kultuuru. Te cienjaa ir pusfabrikaati, saldeeta paartika, aatraa paartika, elljaa ceptas vistinjas (KFC), kebabi un fish and chips. Fish and chips ir nacionaalais eediens, kas vien kaut ko liecina par anglju virtuvi. Taatad - fish ir miltos apviljaata un elljaa vaariita zivs. Chips ir liela izmeera, elljaa vaariiti frii kartupelji. Shis burviigais eediens naak ar taadaam ekstraam, kaa kechups, pipari, etikjis un saals. Peec izveeles. Nebuutu slikts eediens. Ja zivi nevaariitu elljaa, izmantotu prasmiigu garshvielu maisiijumu, frii aizvietotu ar riisiem, vai vaariitiem kartupeljiem, kaa arii pievienotu labu (vaariitu, nevis veikala) meerci un pievienotu svaigus daarzenju salaatus.
Bet tad taa vairs nebuutu Anglija. Taapeec paliekam pie taa kas vinjiem ir - elljaa vaariita zivs ar elljaa vaariitiem frii. Ar kechupu, saali un etikji.

Labi, man apnika. Paturpinaashu iideet citreiz.

Londona nomaac. Metropole, modes, stila un hvz veel kaa pilseeta. Ha!

Iisteniibaa - paarpildiita ar melnajiem, kaa arii pretiigiem, maziem un tumsneejiem babajiem no Indijas un Bangladeshas, kuri man derdzas. Bet iipashi taa valoda. Strupa, pretiiga, neskaniiga. Tik daudz liidzskanju, tik maz patskanju.

Pakistaanji, araabi, marokaanji, alzhiirieshi un visi paareejie.

Es dziivoju 20 minuushu gaajiena attaalumaa no Tower Bridge, bet manaa rajonaa baltie ir retums. Smiekliigi.

Londona ir miskaste. Shauri, debiili izprojekteeti dziivoklji un maajas, debiilaakie un nekvalitatiivaakie logi, nenormaali daarga iire. Debiilie uudenskraani, kur vaaroshajam un aukstajam uudenim ir atseviskjas izpluudes. Pameegjini nomazgaat rokas.

Bet tas babaju daudzums nomaac. Sajuuta, ka atrodies treshaas pasaules valstii.

Gribu citur. Siltumaa, pie palmaam un gaishi zalja okeaana. Gribu mieru un nesteidziigumu. Veeju. Smarzhiigu un atspirdzinoshu. Man pietruukst dabas.iistas dabas. Varbuut jaabrauc uz Griekjiju? Taapat kaa Uldis. Aizbrauca uz paaris meeneshiem, pirms 4 gadiem. Taa arii palika. Un atpakalj netaisaas.

Es sapratu, ka mani nomaac muuri. Peleekaa, peleekaa Londona. Kaa cietums. Briivpraatiigs. Reizeem nesaprotu, ko vispaar te daru. Uz shiis pasaules. Seezhu un briinos.

Have you noticed that if you re-arrange the letters in the word 'immigrants', as well as adding and taking away letters, it actually reads: "Fuck off home you hairy bed sheet and sandal with socks wearing horrible cunts".Coincidence? I don't think so...

Vai juus zinaajaat, ka ir taada maajaslapa http://autocompleteme.com ?

Kaa jau lielaakajai daljai ir (droshi vien) zinaams, tad meegjinot googlee ierakstiit kaadu fraazi, google meedz paliidzeet un izmest iespeejamaas mekleejamaas fraazes. Reizeem rezultaati ir visai diivaini. Par to tad arii ir shii maajas lapa.

Mana shii briizha miiljaakaa fraaze ir (ierakstot googlee "robots are") - "robots are everywhere and they eat old people's medicine for fuel"

Upd. :D Shis ir labaaks - "How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you?"

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico
She's got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin
And if I bring a little music I can fit right in
We've got airplane rides
We got California drowning out the window side
We've got big black cars
And we've got stories how we slept with all the movie stars...

Where are we?!
What the hell is going on?
Dust has only just began to form crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling
I spin around and rub my eyes, this can't be happening...

Es shodien veelos, lai pasaule aiziet bojaa. Taa pavisam. Chussh...un muusu planeetas vairs nav. Vienu grandiozu kosmiska meeroga eksploziju, luudzu.

Nee, man nav depresija, vai nekas taads. Vienkaarshi gribas, lai beigtos visas taas nejeedziibas, ko mees nodaraam sev, cits citam un shai mazajai, zilajai planeetai, uz kuras mees uzturamies. Man liekas, ja es shobriid debesiis ieraudziitu milziigu meteoriitu tuvojamies Zemei, es vienkaarshi pasmaidiitu.

Piedodiet, bet es shobriid buutu gatavs upureet, sevi, juus visus un vispaar visas dziivaas radiibas, aci nepamirkskjinot.

Bet taa kaa tas visticamaak nenotiks, es ar draugiem shovakar vienkaarshi iedzershu un runaashos ne par ko.

Nenomiru. Izsviidu temperatuuru, vakar jau vareju pusliidz nostaties uz kaatiem, shodien jau esmu darbaa. Izskataas, ka shefs ir uzeedies uz mani, bet man paaris reizes uznaaca taa, ka gribeejaas kraameet vinam pa muti, no visa speeka. Nu, lai arii esmu veersis, mani nokaitinaat ir gruuti, bet ja sanaak, tad man praats atsleedzas, paliek tikai dusmas. Un tad par sevi neatbildu. Shodien dabuuju "tehnisko pieziimi" par to, ka 20 min nokaveju, jo metro pamatiigi aizkjeeraas. Jaamaina darbs.

I was clubbing the other night and I was totally pissed. I walked up to this beautiful blonde and said, "Duck my sick!"She said, "You're drunk - don't you mean suck my dick?"I puked on her and said... "No!"

Cik forshi ir gultaa, zem segas atrast lielu, melnu, beigtu vaboli, kuras kaajeles ir izmeetaatas pa visu palagu. Kopaa salasiiju 6as. Taa arii nesapratu. Laikam buushu nospiedis, bet kas ar taam kaajaam?

Guleeju gultaa, spaidot telefonu, kad peekshnji ienaaca praataa paarbaudiit temperatuuru. Jutos it kaa cieshami, tikai galvu taa kaa spieda. Iznjeemu termometru no paduses, bet tur 40.5 graadi. Klusaa histeerijaa lamaadamies noskreeju lejaa, saaku drudzaini raknjaaties pa plauktiem, atradu melnaa balzaama pudeli, ar kuru ieskreeju dushaa, noraavu visas dreebes un ieriiveejos. Peec mirklja noskalojos, atradu etikja pudeli un procesu atkaartoju ar to. Izmeeriiju temp. 36.4. Tagad jau uzlecis liidz 38, bet nu jaa...no 40 graadiem saakas dziiviibai biistama temperatuura. Toties tagad es patiikami smarzhoju peec aabolu etikja un Rigas Melna Balzama vienlaiciigi. :) P.S. Centiishos shonakt nenomirt. :D

Riit eju uz koncertu. Izdomaaju sevi nedaudz palutinaat.

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Balozhi ir muusu pashu peleeciibas un ieksheejaas netiiriibas iemiesojums. Pilseetnieka dveeseles spogulis.

Man darbaa ir 30 gadiiga koleege - sieviete no Bangladeshas. Mani vinas briesmiigais, strupi skaldiitais akcents tracina tik loti, ka katru reizi, kad vina saak runaat angliski, man rodas neapzinaata veelme kraameet vinai pa muti. :D

Klausoties šo dziesmu pēc vairāku gadu pārtraukuma, es trīcēju.

Oh yeah, oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know
For you I'd bleed myself dry
For you I'd bleed myself dry...

Man ir apnikuši tie cilviņi no labdarības organizācijām. Londonā tādu ir pa pilnam. Organizācija pret kuņģa vēzi, pret alcheimeru, pret vardarbību pret bērniem, pret parasto vēzi, dzīvnieku draugi, pret ādas vēzi, izkaltušu āfrikāņu bērnu atbalstam u.t.t. Ikvienā no tām uz ielām ir pārsvarā jaunieši, kas cenšās tevi apturēt uz ielas un ar tādu mākslīgu pozitīvismu un neveiklu "jou, jou!" stiliņu mēģina panākt to, ka tu, iežēlinājies par viņu aizbildināmo rūpju grupu, iedod viņiem savus bankas datus, lai viņi no algas var atvilkt zināmu summu savām vajadzībām (parasti 8£ mēnesī). Pagājušajā Londonas dzīvošanas reizē tiku iepīts trijās tādās, šajā reizē vienā, no kuras ar bankas palīdzību atkratīšos, kad būs laiks un atcerēšanās. Tad nu pirms dažām dienām mani atkal mēģināja apturēt kāds džekiņš ar jau minēto zināmas getto izcelsmes čomiskumu (apmēram tādu, ar kādu 40 gadīgs baltais amerikāņu deputāts varētu vērsties pie afroamerikāņu jauniešu auditorijas, cenšoties izturēties un runāt, kā viņi, lai (savā ak-cik-maldīgajā prātā) radītu ilūziju pats sev, ka tas viņam palīdzēs iegūt viņu sirdis, bet rezultātā panākot nožēlojamu tizlību un izsmieklu). Tad nu šoreiz es neizturēju, apstājos, paskatījos viņam acīs, kamēr viņš man lielā ātrumā runājot centās panākt pirmo un ak-cik-svarīgo iespaidu, par savas rūpju grupas nozīmīgumu un pārtraukdams viņu, pateicu - "sorry, but I don't give a fuck". Viņš saminstinājās un apmulsa, bet es nedaudz labākā garastāvoklī devos pie velosipēda, lai brauktu mājās.

Bet viņi ir kā parazīti. Viens draugs ir pierakstījies četrās, vai piecās šādās organizācijās un katru reizi, kad viņam atkal uzmācas, viņš to arī pasaka, ko šie parasti noignorē un atbild, ka lai taču pierakstās vēl arī pie viņiem un ka tā summa taču neesot tik liela u.t.t.
Lai nu kā, bet vienmēr un visur būs kāds glābjams. Es neiebilstu nodot asinis, vai pat brīvprātīgi kaut kur palīdzēt, ja būtu laiks, bet šitais parazītisms uz garāmgājēju rēķina mani kretinizē.